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The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.

In a superior position or manner.

Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. -- Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.

d, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil. Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors, and tools for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives, screw taps, etc.; brown yellow for axes, chis…

ca; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.

Inexperience. [Obs.]

Not experienced; being without experience; inexperienced. Swift.

Inexperienced. [Obs.]

Imperishable.

Imperishably.

See Viperoidea.

Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper. Viperine snake. (Zoöl.) (a) Any venomous snake of the family Viperidæ. (b) A harmless snake resembling a viper in form or color, esp. Tropidonotus viperinus, a small European species which resembles the viper in color.

Somewhat like a viper; viperous.

A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase.

a. & n. from Whisper. v. t. Whispering gallery, or Whispering dome, one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.…

In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers. Tennyson.

Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

o the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.